Eisenhower poised for U N anniversary policy speech
At San Francisco a White House briefing notes President Eisenhower ready to open the U N 10th anniversary session with an important policy declaration. Big Four foreign ministers plan a Geneva summit and Molotov signals a push for a peace declaration at the anniversary meeting.
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San Francisco
Eisenhower
U. N
Geneva
V. M. Molotov
Eduardo Zuleta Angel
Molotov
General Assembly
State Dulles
International
Columbine III
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Harold Macmillan
Antoine Pinay
Washington
Dulles
Vaclav David
Czechoslovakia
Stanislaw Skrzeszewski
Poland
Draft Quota Set At 591 For August By Selective Service
The Selective Service announced that the August draft quota will be 591, the same as July. Draftees will come from the 23 year old and older group with Cook County supplying about half the quota.
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Chicago
Illinois
Selective Service
Cook County
Four Star Rank Sought For Ridgway By Eisenhower
Washington June 20 AP President Eisenhower asked the Senate to approve permanent four star rank for Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway effective when he retires June 30 as army chief of staff. Ridgway has held temporary full general rank. His permanent rank would not change retirement pay, which is $9,687 yearly. Gen. Maxwell Taylor named to succeed Ridgway.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Senate
Matthew B. Ridgway
Ridgway
Army
Maxwell Taylor
London Stevedores Vote to End Strike
Striking London dock workers voted to end a five week walkout and return to work Tuesday morning. A mass meeting outside the gates elected a delegation to inform union leaders of the plan as port shipping backlog grows in Britain's six major ports.
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London
Briain
Weather forecast and lake level notes in cloudy conditions
Cloudy with chances of thunderstorms tonight and Tuesday. Low tonight around 60s, Tuesday near 90. Yesterday high 83, low 61. Today 7:30 am reading 70, yesterday 83. Sun rises 7:28 pm. Crab Orchard Lake level near spillway today, Little Grassy Lake level with spillway.
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SU Lhw
Sun Rises
Mets
Crab Orchard Lake
Beaten Into Insanity Americans Reported Held by Reds
A group of 184 Austrian war prisoners and civilian internees released by the Soviet Union arrived at Neustadt. They described encounters with several American, British, and French prisoners in Soviet camps, reporting names and alleged fates including Mike Finegage, Charley Brown, Jimmy Fabian, and others, and claimed Adolf Hitler’s nephew Johann Schmeid was being held in Camp Alexandrovsk with a single charge against his father.
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Winer Neustadt
Austria
Soviet Union
Sverdovsk
Camp Alexandrovsk
Irkutsk
Alexandrovsk
Siberia
Mike Finegage
New York City
U. S
Germany
Eisenhower
Charley Brown
Ural
Romania
Jimmy Fabian
Brown
Fabian
Mueller von Weidhietz
Philadelphia
Vladimir
Moscow
Hopkins
Verde Uralsk
Siberian
Schwab
Johann Schmeid
Adolf Hitler
Tehher
Possessor of Hijacked Whisky Sentenced to Prison
William Sheehan, 27, was sentenced to five years in prison for possessing a $40,000 load of hijacked whisky. A U S District Court jury convicted him of possession after acquitting him of hijacking. two other alleged hijackers are dead. The liquor was stolen in 1952 from the Des Moines Transportation Co. in Chicago.
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Chicago
William Sheehan
U. S. District Court
Sheehan
Win CG
Enoch
Des Moines Transportation Co
Subway collision injures forty two in Coney Island crash
In New York on June 20 three cars derailed after a collision near Stilwell Avenue station in the Coney Island area. Forty two of the forty four aboard were injured, with the event described as an early hour subway crash.
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New York
Coney Island
Stilwell Avenue
Eight Vaccinated Pupils Barred From School
Eight youngsters who received Salk antipolio vaccine shots have been kept from attending school for the rest of the term. The Board of Education acted amid fears by parents that inoculated children might be polio carriers. The term ends Friday.
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Board of Education
Woman Delivers Own Baby At Home In Charlotte
Mrs Frances Allman age 35 delivered her own baby at her home in Charlotte on Sunday night. She held the newborn for 15 minutes before ambulance attendants arrived, then they severed the umbilical cord and took mother and eight pound one ounce daughter to a hospital. Both were reported doing fine.
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Charlotte
V. C
Frances Allman
Ex-POWs in Red China Are Allowed to Leave
Hong Kong reports say three former American soldiers and two Belgians have been granted permission to depart Red China after choosing life there. The Americans William A. Cowart Otho G. Bell and Lewis W. Griggs want to return to the United States or Japan. A consular watch was kept in Hong Kong and may continue for several days.
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Hong Kong
China
Peiping Radio
Red China
William A. Cowart
Dalton
Japan
Otho G. Bell
Olympia, Wash
Lewis W. Griggs
Jacksonville
Tex
United States
U. S
Peiping
Dramatic Critic George Jean Nathan Marries Julie Haydon Aboard Santa Rosa
Drama critic George Jean Nathan, 73, wed actress Julie Haydon, 45, on a Sunday voyage aboard the Santa Rosa. It was their first marriage for both after 17 years of acquaintance and a nine year engagement.
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George Jean Nathan
Julie Haydon
Santa Rosa
Post Co. stock gifted to 711 long-serving employees
Washington June 20 AP Mr and Mrs Eugene Mever donate nearly half a million dollars in Washington Post Co stock to 711 employees with five or more years of service. Mever chairman announced the gift on the 22nd anniversary of his purchase of the company.
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Washington
Eugene Mever
Washington Post Co
Mever
Drowning Tragedy After Storm Cellar Flooding
In Quanah Texas three Keeney children Doris 5 Thomas 4 Alma 3 drowned after floodwater rushed into a storm cellar during a heavy rain. Father Ira Keeney tried to rescue them but could not reach the youngsters. The storm caused a dike break and widespread flooding across Hardeman County as the family sought shelter.
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Quanah
Tex
Ira Keeney
Aem
Keeney
Doris
Thomas
Alma
Hardeman County
M. C. Owen
Texas
Dallas
Panhandle Plains
House Passes 7 Percent Pay Raise Bill
The House approved a 7 percent pay hike for over a million rank and file government workers by 370 to 3. The raise costs about 325 million dollars yearly and heads to a Senate House conference to reconcile with the Senate’s 10 percent proposal.
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Washington
House
Taber
New York
Mason
Linois
Vursell
Illinois
Senate House
Senate
Illinois woman sheriff at national meet
Sheriff Emma Grebner of Galena Illinois stood out at the opening session of the National Sheriffs Assn annual meeting. The event brings together about 300 delegates to hear about new enforcement techniques and updates.
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Illinois
Emma Grebner
Galena
Ill
National Sheriffs Assn
Stinker contest entries lag as No 37 prize set at 400
Fans eyed Stinker No. 37 amid a slow weekend with only 66 entries received by the editor. No. 37 carries a $400 prize, and entrants may gain 10 percent more by mailing a postcard with the entry, while noting each Stinker’s deadline date.
Billy Graham Plans Big Four Summit Eve Bible Meeting
Billy Graham announces a July 17 revival in Geneva called The Hour of Decision as a worldwide broadcast ahead of the Big Four summit. He told 30 000 Swiss in the Palace of Expositions that the revival could awaken the world and frame the leaders talks with Eisenhower Bulganin Eden and Faure scheduled to arrive.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Billy Graham
United States
Europe
Graham
Palace of Expositions
Eisenhower
Bulganin
Eden
Faure
Confessed Germ Warfare Claims From Returned Pilot
Four U S jet pilots released from Chinese camps are said to have confessed to crossing the Yalu under Air Force orders, though the Air Force reports no such orders and plans no discipline. Capt Harold Fischer of Iowa and three others face review. one pilot confirms a confession while others deny.
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Washington
Air Force
Harold Fischer J J
Swea City
Iowa
Fischer
Yalu River
Marine Corps
Frank Schwable
Army
Edwin Heller
Wynnewood
Lyle Cameron
Lincoln
Neb
Roland Parks
Omaha
China
Heller
Honolulu
Sage 2
United
Isnankiah
Ae Ee Eeneapolis Tribune
San Francisco
United Nations
Pennsylvania
Cameron
Parks
Former Labor Leader Pleads Guilty in Tax Racketeering Case
Evan Dale 38, Carbondale labor boss, pleaded guilty in Springfield to a six count tax indictment after withdrawing innocence. He received 10 years and 5,000 dollars fine for evading 104,656 dollars from 1948 to 1952 and 5 years for failure to file in 1953. A prior 15 year racketeering sentence in East St. Louis last December 21 runs concurrently, with total time potentially 15 years. Dale led about 3 000 AFL workers in Southern Illinois and faces six more indictments in the Eastern District. The U S attorney said the sentences run consecutively, with commencement today, and the U S attorney general to determine prison placement. Dale appeared promptly at 10 a m wearing a dark blue suit.
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Evan Dale
Carbondale
Springfield
Dale
U. S
Charles G. Briggle
East St. Louis
Circuit Court of Appeals
Chicago
Joppa
Illinois
John B. Stoddart
Briggle
Stoddart
St. Louis
Es John Hoban
Gilbert Scheller
Air Force Chooses New Silver Tan Uniform for Summer
The Air Force decided today on a silver tan uniform to replace the long standing khakis used since 1947. The full changeover will take four years and summer wear will include short trousers knee length stockings a short-sleeve shirt and a bush jacket. The summer gear will be sold next fall in tropical and semi tropical area stores.
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Air Force
Parachutist Jack Clapp Demonstrates Youthful Daredevil Spirit
AP reports 70 year old Jack Clapp parachuted from a plane on a Sunday in Detroit to prove a man is only as old as he feels. A former flying daredevil and city school painter, he executed a few somersaults before deploying his parachute.
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Detroit
Jack Clapp
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